The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15

stop the Big Leak,
Inc manufacturer who succeeds in
business, unless he be one who has q
practical monopoly OF some sneciaj
article, owes his success in a large de.
gree to the intelligence and fidelity
with which he looks after the MANY
small details presented. Buying the
raw materials to the best ADVANTAGES
Is one point, although it may be ey.
pressed In minute fractiol OF a cent
per pound. Considerations as to the
almost imperceptible shades in their
quailty; economy in their use, so that
no more Is required than will answer
the purpose; combinations of different
materials, 20 that part of a more ex.
pensive can be displaced bv a cheaper
sort without impairing the utility of
the product; and the various proc
esses OF manufacture, whereby each
Is accomplished at the best ADVANTAGE
and with the least expenditure of la.
Dor and money. All these are among
the points to which attention is
given, and the small amounts Sc.
cured here and saved there make
in the end an aggregate which
displayed itself in a prosperous and
successful business. 1t is only by the
practice of the same methods that the
farmer can attain any large degree of
success In his business. There is no
one department OF the farm in which
SO much money can be made as to ena-
BILE any farmer to afford an indiffer.
ence as to the results achieved in 9th
er departments, but there are number.
q IN uh
tentlon slight advantage can be Sc
cured and if something is secured in
all splendid aggregate will be the re-
suit. But through g. want of proper
attention to every part OF farm man.
agement, little details rs we'll asgreat.
1t is often the case that the profit
realized in one department OF farm in
dustry is dissipated through improvi-
dence in others. The fields we often
see we'll titled and fairly product
i've, but the crops poorly Sc
cured. Or, with more perfection of
detail, the crops may be brought I'M
der cover In good shape and at proper
time, but for want OF proper feeding
sheds, racks, or troughs, very consid-
cradle proportion is ultimately tram
Piled into the mud and wasted. In
other cases these are provided, and
every other source of waste carefully
being guarded against by intelligent
attention to even the slightest details,
the profit which seems almost certain
is lost by maintaining a class of ami
mails which, from their nature and
character cannot possibly yield any
return commensurate with the value
OF the food they consume and the
room and attention they require.
With the majority OF farmers this is
the principal source OF waste, the great
leak through which the profits of the
farm sink, unobserved, away, and
through which disappears what ought
to be the success OF many Industrious
lives. The fertility OF the soil is well
maintained, it is cultivated with judg-
ment, it's yield is satisfactory in every
way, it's products are carefully cleaned
and housed from the weather,
and all the applications pro.
vided and precautions taken to pre-
vent the stock from making unneces-
sary waste, but the poor miserable
scrubs to which these products are fed
can scarcely return fifty per cent. of
their market value. The disappoint-
ment which naturally follows would
have been obviated lad the attention
to details been followed 81 little farther
and improved live stock secured,
capable not of consuming, simply, but
of turning into still more valuable
commodities the ordinary products of
the farm. When men build houses
they are wiser-no one ever fails to
put on the root.
There is no satisfaction to be de-
rived from this sort OF business, or
without one acquires thehabit OF con-
sidering all the details, how they can
be improved and fresh advantages are
secured by every effort as it is made.
But no important details can be neg
lected without to some extent impair-
ing the profit and limiting the measure
OF uccess.-Practical Farmer.